Automobile safety-signal.



D. R. LASHBROOK.

AUTOMOBILE SAFETY SIGNAL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-I8, 1916.

1,235,335. Patented July 31, 1917.

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Application filed December novel and improved safety signal. for use upon automobiles, to avoid confusion-and collisioru; the device embodying u slideor signal member and novel means for mounting and actuating the some. i

It is also the ob eet of the invention to provide :1 signol device of the nature hull-- outed which is simple and inexpensive in construction, which con he applied to various automobiles, and Which is practical and ellieient in use.

With the foregoing and other objects in View which Will appear as the description proceeds, the invention lfinlflQS in the oonibh nation and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and elaimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the inmntion herein disclosed can be unnle within the scope of What claimed Without departinp; from the spirit oi the invention.

The invention is illustrated in the (LQCOlD- ponying drawing, wherein: I

Figure 1 is a plain new oi an uutomobile illustrating the signal device applied.

Fig. 2 is. on ell-lo ed sectional detail token f :P on the line 2-2 ol Fig. l.v

Fig. 23 is o section on the line 3-3 of Fig. The device embodies u transverse elongated casing l disposed at the reorof the outomobile, preferulily at the left hand side, and liuving its left hand end open. An elongated slide or signal plate 2 is sluluble tronsremedy in the casing l to lie prmected therefrom and retracted therein, said slide heuring the words slow down" or the like, so that when the slide is projected and its legend visible, it will caution other machines in the. reunite slow down lo ovoid collision. The slide is projected when the operator desires to turn to the right or le'i'l, or to stop.

in order to mount the casing l at the rum: end of the hutoinobile, there is provided at longitudinal pipe or tubular meinher 3 fastenedlto the bottom or other suitable urt -Speeification of Letters Patent.

izttented July 5531, M917.

18,1916. Serial No. 137,831.

of the vehicle body at the rear end thereof, and having its rear end ofi'set upwardly, as

at ll and attached toone side of the casingl 'to support said casing adjacent to the tail light so that the slide 2 can be projected from the left hand side of the vehicle body to be readily occupants of other vehicles.

A pair of cords or flexible elements and 6 extends through the tubular member 3, and is trained, around pulley Wheels or guides i' vithih the angles of said tulnilzir member, and l-szfid flexible elements are also trained around pulleys or other suitable guides 8 mountei" in, the opening between the upwardly oll'set end of the tubular member 3 and the casing 1 to guide said flexible elements between the easing and tubular more: her. One end of the flexible element 5 is: eoiineeted to the inner end oi" the slide 5 at 9, and the corresponding end of the lie e ble element ll is attached, as at 10 to the in ner end of the slide 2, the flexible element 6 being trained around it pulley Wheel 11 or other suitable guide mounted Within the cusing 1 udjueent to the closed end thereoi Any suitable means run be employed for reciproil'uting tne flexible elements 5 and 6 in opposite directions for projecting and re treating" the slide, it being noted that when the flexible element is pulled it will projECl the slide which pulls the ment 3 with it, Whereas when the flexible element 6 is pulled, the slide is retracted, pulling with it the flexible element As it simple and effective means for actuating the flexible elements, it lever 12 can be provided below the bottom of the eur'loody to the ends of which the cords or flexible elementslii and 6 ure uttuehed, ondeuid lever can he'proruled at its intermediate fulcrum with a foot piece or actuating member 13 adapted to be operated by the foot or hood of the operator for oscillating the lever, thus enabling the slide or signal member tobe readily projected and retracted at will. Various other meuoe, however for urtuutlng the flexible elements may be employed. The inner end of the slide 2 nus o notch or recess 1% for accommodating the pulley Wheel 11 when the slide is retrurted, whereby the casing 1 need not be longer than thesllde.

liming thus decrrilied the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A vehicle signal emi'iodring at tubular flexible elevisible by the pedestrians endmember adopted to be cerlird by a vehicle and lo project therefrom. a easing having one end open and one side secured to lie projeeting end of said tubular member near the open end of the easing, so that the rasiug is eup mrteil by the tubular member, a nal slirle movable within the casing and projectalile from its open emL said slide being movable past said enrl of the tubular member, a pair of guides; al: i'lie juncture o'f-saicl tubular member and caai 1 air of flexible elements extending through said tubular member and pawl eaiil gull :5, said elementa being attached lo tile slide near Llie V guide for one flexible element iuounted"\\'itliin the casing at the 5 other (iHl thereof, and a manually operable lever havingan intermediate fulcrum, Sillll elements being attached to said lever to be lnm'enl in opposite directions thereby.

In ifiestin'iony that I claim the foregoing as niyown, 1 have hereto allixed my signature in. the presence of two Witnesses.

' DELMON ROWLAND LASHBRUOK inner eml therein. a

ll'itnesses:

L. R. llicw'ron, 11. ll. Bauer. 

